FINICAL is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. FINICAL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 15 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept FINICAL?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 50 / 100
Our own measure of how useful FINICAL is to know. It scores 12 from 7 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.9% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FINICAL
No single letter turns FINICAL into another word.
How FINICAL scores
Face value of the 7 tiles in FINICAL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| i | 2 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 7 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 514,646.
What does FINICAL mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Fussy about small details and hard to please.
Finical describes a person with exacting tastes, such as a diner who sends back food over trifles. It is the older and rarer sibling of finicky and sounds somewhat formal or literary.
How FINICAL is used
Used of people, tastes and habits that show excessive care about minor points.
- The finical editor corrected every comma twice.
- Her finical taste made shopping for curtains a long task.
- He was far too finical to eat food from a street stall.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FINICAL and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with FINICAL
5 longer words begin with FINICAL.
Shorter words from the letters in FINICAL
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Common questions about FINICAL
- Is FINICAL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts FINICAL, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is FINICAL worth?
- FINICAL is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FINICAL mean?
- Fussy about small details and hard to please.
- What letters can be added to FINICAL?
- No single letter can be added to FINICAL to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 7 letters of FINICAL:
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